All they had to do was check ClevelandGuardians.com and they didn't do it
Obviously, a lot went into Cleveland’s MLB team changing their name. They had to sift through all the suggestions, get some sense of what fans would like and what would be manageable, and then worry about logos and the like. More goes into this at the highest level that you or I can think of, or at least that’s what they’d tell you to justify spending what was assuredly an ungodly amount of money with design firms and consultants to come to their choice.
Still, with all the things we can’t imagine that go into changing the name of a Major League Baseball team, you’d think someone somewhere — an intern, an assistant, or the president himself — would just say,
“Hey, I’m going to take literally a half a second to type in ClevelandGuardians.com, just to see if anyone has it.”
Whoops.
So now a MLB team is basically having the future of its name dictated to it by a
male roller derby team. Yes, there are male roller derby teams. It’s not just that group of tattooed girls who commandeer the bar’s jukebox on a Saturday night. Anyway, the Cleveland chapter has been the “Cleveland Guardians” since 2011. They have the domain name, and the social media accounts on Facebook and Instagram. Though not Twitter, as apparently they didn’t want to wade into that cesspool. And who could blame them?
https://deadspin.com/all-they-had-to-do-was-check-clevelandguardians-com-and-1847403859
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They had to have known. I knew about the roller derby team, and I learned about them from a Tribe social media page a few years ago.
They had one job..
